DB Dowd
@dbdowd.bsky.social
dbdowd.com | writer + illustrator working on print culture, hybridity of reading + looking. WashU StL, DIRA (Dowd Illustration Research Archive) Under contract Princeton U Press, writing Reading Pictures: A Cultural History of Illustration
The 1829-33 Cadell edition of the Waverly novels was a landmark illustrated edition—frontispiece and title page were enough to qualify as such. As for the more readable, and what some called the first historical novel, Ivanhoe is the call!
March 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
The 1829-33 Cadell edition of the Waverly novels was a landmark illustrated edition—frontispiece and title page were enough to qualify as such. As for the more readable, and what some called the first historical novel, Ivanhoe is the call!
Lovely and wise. Thank you for working it up and putting it out for us.
January 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Lovely and wise. Thank you for working it up and putting it out for us.
Oh man would that be sweet
November 8, 2023 at 2:31 AM
Oh man would that be sweet
Glad to see you over here!
October 10, 2023 at 2:04 AM
Glad to see you over here!